Friday, March 9, 2007

22/365 - Kid's Music


These two boys love to play together. I caught them making some music on the concrete with their toy and cup...

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

21/365 - Fire Pit Zoom


A closeup zoom of the fire pit. Don't get burned!

20/365 - Light Shapes


I took this photo inside the Animal Kingdom Lodge @WDW. I love the light shapes both angular and curving...

19/365 - Finally, Back from WDW with a decent HSI connection


OK, I know I haven't been posting everyday, even though I thought I would from Disney World. I did take tons of pix everyday. Now I just have to sort through them...
You would also think that at a Disney Resort you would have decent internet access (especially for $9.95 a day charges). However, I was getting speeds of lower than 28kbs. In fact, the one post I made from Disney was 18/365 below, that was because a friend in my gaming class had a Mac with a Verizon Wireless card and kindly let me tag into his network. I was seeing 36kbs with that hookup, better than the so-called Hi-Speed Access Disney was selling...!!!
Anyway, supposedly it was a glitch of some kind...
So, now I will be posting a whole string of photos from the trip...Enjoy!

Friday, February 23, 2007

18/365 - Training


I was in training today at the conference in the Coronado Springs Resort @ Disney.
The instructor was a little dry at first, but quickly warmed up and I have learned tons of stuff about e-learning games.
I am bursting full of ideas I will never get to implement at work! Figures!

17/365 - First Airplane Ride


Disney Time!!!! We finally boarded the plane Thursday and took off for Disney World in Florida! The kids are very excited because this will be their first time in an airplane and their first time to Disney!

They had a blast looking out the windows of the plane and seeing the ground far below them...

Monday, February 19, 2007

16/365 - Wheel of Lights



I took this one at a birthday party yesterday. I was experimenting with long exposure times while moving the camera on the lights in the arcade and came up with this...

15/356 - Golden Sky













Ok, I know I've been bad about posting, but here is one. I need to post the others I have taken tonight or tomorrow.
I got lucky on this one and pulled into the parking lot of a restaurant looked up and said, "WOW!, there's my pic!"

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

14/365 - Caribbean Shrine


This is my Caribbean shrine. :-)
One of the big items on my life list is getting my captain's license and then sailing in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

13/365 - GO AWAY!


This is a door hanger from our 7 Habits course at work. I want to hang it on my office door all the time...
By the way I thought Kerrie might be able to use this after seeing this article in her blog.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

12/365 - Finally! I get to post! - Tools of the Trade


I have been bad this weekend about posting, but really good about accomplishing some projects that had kept hanging on and seeming like they would never end. This is a sampling of the tools I use at work. I like the creative side of my job and have vowed that this is the year I will put my creative skills to even greater use.

Friday, February 9, 2007

11/365 - Cobbled Together Creative CloseUp


Today I brought my sons' Samsung Digimax U-CA505 point and shoot to work to play with. Jack's 365 Blog article inspired me to be creative and so looking around the office I found an old lens element from a zoom lens. It looked like it would fit the Samsung if I held it over the lens, and it was. Now, what to photograph? Ah, that coke machine token with the eagle embossed on it would work great!

I used the maximum telephoto setting of 3x and manually focused by moving the camera closer and this is what I came up with.
Pat took a pic of me taking a pic using this for his 365 blog. Here's some I cropped down so you could see the technique...

Thursday, February 8, 2007

10/365 - Squirrel in Tree



Took this squirrely shot in my yard, before the little guy scampered away.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

9/365 - Ducks by the lake


Saw these guys hanging out by the lake on the way home today, and decided this was my pic of the day...

8/365 - Driving Past


Here's one I took on the way home yesterday, but did not get a chance to put it up. I've been swamped with design work and fixing our SUV.

Monday, February 5, 2007

7/365 - Misty Morning and "Punishment"

I took this photo on the way to work this morning. I've been wanting to take some more photos of Sleepy Hollow Farm on good foggy days or when the steam is rising off the lake, but always tell myself I'm running late and don't have time to stop. But since I started doing the 365 I am not going to do that anymore.
I know I was bad this weekend and only posted on one of the days, so I "punished" myself by staying a little longer and looking for more shots. :-)
Hope you like them.



Saturday, February 3, 2007

6/365 - Why the sad face, Jonah?

You would think he would look happier!
Actually, he and his brothers were. I took them out to the YMCA fields, while Momma was working and we flew the glider for a couple of hours and shot some hoops.
I really love my boys, and I wish I didn't have to work and could be with them all week.

Thursday, February 1, 2007

5/365 - This makes the decision easy!

More and more to do and not enough time! Definitely time to go to the beach!

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

4/365 - Decisions, Decisions...

Can't seem to make up my mind...which one...which one?

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

You lookin' at me, boy?!

Went out to Barnes & Noble's to get a Flash book and saw this horse in front of PF Chang's...had to take the shot even though I was running late picking up the wife and having 2 of the boys in tow.

Monday, January 29, 2007

2/365 - Magical Dreams



Magical Dreams - Hey Dada, Let's go there!
I took this picture of my son against my greenscreen. I had been wanting to do some photos in front of it since I bought it last summer, but had never gotten a round tuit. :-)
Thanks, Kerrie for getting this 365 project going!

1/365 - Start of Photo 365 Project


In an email this weekend from Kerrie, I was asked to join a project called Photo 365.

"A good description of this project can be found here.

The point is to take a photograph every day for a year. These photos will sum up your day... no matter how exciting or mundane it may be! Ultimately it will improve your photography, and create a pretty cool log of how your year was spent. " -- quote from Kerrie...

This photo was taken in Estes Park, Colorado a while back, and not today, but since I wanted to get this blog kicked off I threw it in.